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Tokyo Electric's Nuclear Plans May Hinge on Vote, Paper Says
Tokyo Electric's Nuclear Plans May Hinge on Vote, Paper Says
Tokyo, Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s plan to use
mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel at a nuclear plant in a
village in northwest Japan may now hinge on approval by town
residents in a March referendum, the Asahi newspaper said.
Members of the village council in Kariwa, where the plant is located,
voted yesterday to allow a public referendum on the company's use of
the controversial fuel, the report said. The town's mayor could still
challenge the decision, the paper said.
Tokyo Electric Power, Japan's largest utility, in November postponed
until 2001 plans to use the mixed fuel at its Kariwa plant after a
Sept. 30 accident at a uranium processing facility in which a worker
was killed and nearby residents were exposed to dangerous levels of
radiation.
Kariwa's council last year rejected a request by residents to hold a
referendum on the company's plans and went ahead with its approval
process, the paper said. But growing concern over the safety of the
mixed fuel prompted town council members to reverse their prior
stance, the paper said.
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